MINNEAPOLIS — Three of the four officers who arrested and restrained George Floyd on May 25, 2020, did not act in accordance to use of force policy, a Minneapolis police inspector and longtime academy instructor testified Friday in the federal trial of three ex-Minneapolis officers in Floyd's death.
Inspector Katie Blackwell resumed the witness stand In the fifth day of testimony in the trial of Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, who stand accused of ignoring their duty to provide aid while fellow officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes as he pleaded for his life before falling unconscious and dying in May 2020.
Blackwell walked jurors through the department's training protocol before telling them that the actions of Lane, Kueng and Derek Chauvin were all "inconsistent" with the department's use of force policy — particularly when Chauvin planted his knee in Floyd's neck.
